Pacific West Conference student-athletes, juggling the daunting tasks of playing their sport, travel and rigorous academic challenges, have once again set new records for classroom success.
2,700 of them can boast of a 3.0 cumulative grade point average or better through the end of the 2026 spring semester, placing them on the All-PacWest Academic Team for their particular sport. To qualify, student-athletes have to have that 3.0 grade-point average, completed at least two semesters at their institution, and participated in regular season competition or redshirted in one of the 15 PacWest sponsored sports.
The 2,700, an average of 208 student-athletes per school, tops the previous best of 2,728 (195 per school) in 2024-25. There were 1,900 in 2024, 1,822 in 2023 and 1,753 recipients in 2022. Last year's 2,728 is still highest all-time mark, but the conference had 14 schools in 2024-25 compared to 13 universities this year.
Of that 2,700, an astounding 172 had a perfect 4.0 grade point average in their undergraduate or graduate studies. Last year, there were 186 perfect marks (again, with one more school). That tops the previous best of 125 in 2023-24, 118 perfect marks in 2022-23 and 81 in 2021-22. For further comparison, in 2020-2021, in what was a record at the time, there were 64 GPA's of 4.0. In 2019, there were 39 PacWest student-athletes that had a perfect 4.0.
The highest total for any men's team was the
Menlo baseball squad, which listed 44 student-athletes with a 3.0 GPA or higher. The Oaks were followed closely by the track and field teams from
Westmont (38) and
Biola (38). For the women, the
Concordia track and field squad had a total of 40 scholar-athletes, with the
Dominican soccer team next at 38.
The schools with the highest number of perfect 4.0 student-athletes were
Jessup (39),
Chaminade (26) and
Vanguard (20).
Here is the list of Academic All-PacWest leaders by sport.
Menlo College led
five sports (Baseball, Men's Golf, Men's Soccer, Men's Tennis, Women's Tennis).
Vanguard led or tied for the lead in
three sports (Women's Basketball, Women's Cross Country, Softball), as did
Biola (volleyball, women's basketball, men's track and field)..
Fall Sport Leaders
*Men's Cross Country:
Westmont (17)
*Women's Cross Country:
Point Loma, Vanguard (18)
*Men's Soccer:
Menlo (35)
*Women's Soccer:
Dominican (38)
*Volleyball:
Biola (21)
Winter Sport Leaders
*Men's Basketball:
Fresno Pacific (18)
*Women's Basketball:
Vanguard+, Biola (15)
Spring Sport Leaders
*Baseball:
Menlo (44)
*Men's Golf:
Menlo (14)
*Women's Golf:
Point Loma (9)
*Softball:
Vanguard (22)
*Men's Tennis:
Menlo (17)
*Women's Tennis:
Menlo (11)
*Men's Track and Field:
Biola, Westmont (38)
*Women's Track and Field:
Concordia (40)
+Also the conference champion.